IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) /. 1.0 I.I fM IIIIM '.'• '- Ills . la 112.0 1.8 1-25 1.4 1.6 ■^ 6" ^ V] <^ /a /. VI ■he splendor with which the dawn ilhiniines the Eastern sky. The name of the present Governor-General of Can- ada is one of the keys which Tinloose these chords of the fairy music of old romance. When I was in Chicago the boardings blazed with the ornate posters announcing that a popular actor would shcjrtly appear in one of the theatres of the city in hu famous imper- sonation of Richard the Lion Heart. To-day there lives in the Government House at Ottawa, the direct lineal descendant of the warrior whose arrow slew King Richard before the castle of Charles in Perigord. A chasm of seven centuries yawns between the fatal shot of Btrtrand de Gourdon and our own day, but it is bridged by the history of a single family ; and the soughing of the Canadian wind amid the pines seems to bring with it far-away echoes of Blondel"s song and the fierce clash of Christian sword on Moslem helm in the Crusaders' war. The legi>ndary origin of the Gordons of Haddo, of whom Lonl Aberdeen is the living representative, does not lose its value from our present point of view l>ecause its authenticnty is a subject of antiquarian dispute, or because there are authorities who trace the Gordon genealogy mucli further back tlinn the days of the lion-hearteil Pian- tagenet. Antiquaries question everything, and if tlic Gordons were iti Aberdeen before tlie Norman Will- iam conquered England. tlnVt in no way detracts from the romantic interest that associates their name with the tragic fate of one of the few English monai'clis whose story has become an heirloom of the world of old romance. If the familv historv of F^ord Aberdeen recalls the ancient gloii.- ut' ilic Plantagenets, that uf Lady Aberdeen revives memories not less glorious, in the opinion at least of one great branch of the English- speaking world. Tlie (xovenior-General is a Gordon of Scotland, but Ids wife claiuis descent not only from the ancient king^ nf Scotland but also from those of Ireland through the O'Neills of Tyrone. To the Anglo-Saxon. Irish history is very nuich of a sealed bonk. To an l?-ish tifitrint it is like those illu- i.oiw \ui-:ui>EES. minated manuscnprs wliicli still attest, in Kuropeau umsenms. the glory nt CeUic art and the ancient sfilendor of the Irish race. And among the heroes whose exjtloits furnisli the illuminations to the gilded page, the O'Xeills occupy a leading i)lace. Tliey were, it must be admitted., no friends of the English. Nor, indeed, was it po.ssible fur them to regard the invader as other than the common enemy of their family and of their race. Had tti>'r«' lieen a fi'wmore O'Neills in Ireland, the courseot' the history of tliat distressful isle might have been very different. T the axe and sword and musket thinned their ranks, and although the story of tlie O'N'eills is as f u<'l for the brooiling imagination of the patriot, it resembles all othi-r Irish liistories in its record of unavailing valor and of the pathos of despair. In these later days, liowever, the cause of Irish hlierty and Ii-i-h imtiiualitv has fniuid a repre- A> fc- / 42 THE REVIVM' Of Rl-Ml:WS. tentative in Lady Al)Pi"(l('(.'ii, who from Iht jMisitimi in tho inner arcaimm of Britisii rule iiia>' lif able to do iiion! for licr country in tlic council clianilicr tluin any of her stalwai't ancestors were able to achieve for Erin in the tented tield. Apart fi'oni tlie associations of legend and of ro- mance that chi-ter round tlie family history of the Amei'iean continent date back for two centuries, to a period aii- tectidtnit to the great schism by which George the Third rent the English-speaking world in twain. John (rordon. of Haddo, was created a baronet oi Nova Scotia by Charles Stuart, King of Enghmd, and the baronetcy is one among the many titles bornt! by the Earl of Abei'deen. Sir John Gordon was a Cavalier of the schf»ol of Montrose. When the Scottish people were signing the Solemn League and Covenant with their heart's blood .Sir John was f'ortifyini,' liis castle and sharpening his .'i^vord, and nnistering his fighting men to help the King to govern by right divine. The fat<,'s and tlu; Scottish people were', however, too much for Sir John and for his ro3-al master. When the Mar- quis of Argyle b(!si(>ged him in his castle of Ki'llie his Scottish artillerynK'n, having no stomach for the cause, deserteil to the army of the Covenant and Sir Jolm was comiielled ingloriously to surrender. Thei'e was sliort slirift in thuse days for the vancpiished. Sir John Gordon was carried as a prisoner to Ediubro, and in the .same month of July that CJliver Cromwell on the moor of Long Marslon gave tlui royal army the foretaste of the cptality of his Ironsides Sir John Gor- don was judicially condemned to death and publicly executed. The lesson was a severe one, but the effect se(>nis to have been most salutary. From that time to this, although his desc(>ndants may have described themselves as Royalists, Jacobites or Tories, they have always been true to the cause of liberty, of justice and of progress. Of this a more conspicuous example was aiTordedin the person t)f the first Eai'l (if Aberdi-eu. Five years after the first Nova Scdtian baronet went to the headsman's block the axe of the executioner was em- ployed on the neck of Charles Stuart, but after a time the whirligig of time brought aboiit its revenge, and the son of the beheaded king, having come to the throne, made the son of the beheaded baronet first Earl of Aberdeen and Lord High Chancellor of Scot-, land. Argyle went to the scaffold, and the Cavaliers, once more ia the saddle, jjursued their old eiiemies without ruth. They found, however, that their Lord High Chancellor ])rought too much conscience to his work to serve as the tool of mere proscription. The Privy Council , finding some difficulty in striking at the heads of some of the Whigs, issued orders that hus- bands and fathers should l)e held responsible by fine and imprisonment for the o]iinioiis of their wives and daughters. Lord Aberdeen, to his credit be it spoken, declared fi-om the judgment seat that the orders of the Privy Council could not be carried out under any existing law. Tlien speaking as Minister he detdined to propose any alteration in the law to enable thia monstrnu> ininuity l(^ be legalize(l. The Stuarts were a .stubborn rac ■. and instead of recognizing the justice and integrity of Lord Aberdeen, the King drily ob- LADY ABEUDEKN. served that he would be served in his own manner and according to his own mejisures. Lord Aberdeen at once resigned. He was too loyal to the dynasty to consent to serve King William when James was sent packing across the seas, and he spent Jc mi thl off Jaj wl ■eri liei rJ hel R{ tot A ml pel / LORD AND LADY ABERDEEN: A ('.HARACTER SKim:/! l.{ nner deen lasty imes ipent the rest of liislifc in retirement. Ilf was. ho viver, snffieiently free from Jacobitisiii to take the oatli of allegiance when (.^iiecn Anne came to the throne. He Avas waid to have V)een the .solidest .statesman in Scotland, the fii-st of a line of which the present Governor-General is no unworthy r^'presentative. It wonld be a mistake, however, to imagine that the Abfrdeeiis descend solely from the conservatives or aristocrats of the world. Lady Aberdeen owes hnv family name of Marjoribanka to the grant of cer- tain lands made by King Kobert the Bruci^ to his dangliter. ^larjorie, who married the High Steward John>tone. wIiom' family in time snbstitnted tiie name Majoribaidis tor their c-wn more prosaic one. But not oidy is Lady Aberdeen associated by her ancestors with the patriot hero of Scottish his- tory, thtn-e is in her family story one of the most ro- mantic incidents •which occur seMom far from that mystic l)oi'derland of oldromance which diviiled Eng- land irom Scotland. Among her ancestors she connts the famons Grizel Cochrane, whose reckless daring Baved her father's life. It was in the last years of King James" reign and Grizel's father. Sir John Cochrane, of Ochiltree, was lying in Ediubro under .sentence of death. All efforts to secure his pardon f.dled. The death warrant, .signed in London, was fniwardedby miiil to Edinbro : on its arrival Sii; John w.is to die. Desjiair gives courage to the most timid, and Grizel Cochrane, seeing that there was only one chance left, seized it with intrepidity. Disguising herself as a higliwaymanshe waylaid the Roy;d mail, an 1 clapping a pistol to the driver's head compelled hiin to give up tlie death warrant. As soon as .she poss(!Ssed herself of the fatal document .slie rode off and so(jn had the jileasure of thrusting it into the fire. Whether out ot consideration for the heroism of the exploit or because of the Revolution is not stated, but Sir John was ultimately pardoned. Lord Aberdeen also boasts a Grisell amotig his an- cestors, who, by the way, makes him a direct descend- ant of John Knox. Among all men born on Scottish soil there is none greater or more universally esteeme'^ than the great Reformer. Lady Grisell Baillie mar- ried the son of Robert Baillie. the martyr, who was John Knox's great grandson. Lord Aberdeen's grand- mother was Lady Grisell's great granddaughter. Robert Baillie was one of the martyrs for Christ's Crown and Covenant, whose sufferings have done so much to glorify the history of Scotland and to dignify the Scotch character. It is a very pri;tty story, that of Lady Grisell and of her visits t(3 the martjT as he Jay in the Tolbooth waiting for death. It has features whicdi suggest that Grisell was the original of Rob- ■ert Louis Stevenson's latest heroine. Grisell pla.yed her part faithfullj' and nobly. She could not save Robert Baillie, but her heroism anil beauty won the heart of his son George, whom she married after the Revolution of 1688 had made it safe for honest folks to marry and be given in marriage. Lady Grisell was H poet as well as a heroine, and fragments o{ her minstrelsy to this day enliven the hours of the Scottish peasants. II. I'Ml-: I'KIMH MINIS II K. The most notable name among all the ancestors of the (tovernor* iem r.il is tliat of his gi-andfatiier, Earl of Aberdeen, Prime Minisrer of tlie C^neen in the miildle of the im'sent centiny. How great and good, how ideally perfe(,'t a character he was has but re- cently been revealed to the world. In tlie nsefnl and interesting series of the (.^neen's Prim.' Mini>ters whicli Mr. Stuart Reid is editing the most int'Test- ing volume is tliat wliidi Sir Arthur Gordon has devoted to the story of tlie Earl of Alterdeen. it is a narrative which tends to deepen and reassure our faith in liuman nature, and especially in the native virtues of tlie ICnglisii-speaking race. Tlie discovery of a great personality is to tlie historian what the finding of a nugget is to the miner wlio is jirospect- ing for gi-ld. To cotno upon a pure lump of metal lying in an out of a way ;>lace is of much more im- portance tlian the intrinsic value of the jiarticular nugget. Its importance arises from the fact that it suggests the presence of otliei' nuggets of equal value which hav(> not yet been discovered, but may be re- veali'd in that gold bearing stratum. You rise from the perusal of Sir Arthur Gordon's monograph feel- ing that the world, and especially the British iiublic;, is riclK-r in human worth and almost ideal goodness than you suspected before you turned ovtn" its pages. Lord Aberdeen as Prime Minister closed his official career amid the dark cloud-' and somlm- discourage- ment of theCrimean War, Owing to tliat unfortunate circumstance li.. which he was ovei-wheiined in a catastrophe that he had in vain endeavon d to avert, his real merits as a statesman wei'e ovr^rshadowed, and it was not until his son's biography ajipeared that men began to appreciate the greatness of Lord Ah(>r- (leen as an imperial statesman. The memory of such a man and the story of the services whicli ho was able to render the Empire is a iierjietual incentive to his grandson, whose shoulders ai'eiiot unequal even to the burden of the heritage of so great a name. Lord Aberdeen before he was ;i(i. h.id to jilay a part in the history of Europe which is without a jiaiallel. He was sent as special emis-ary from England to the camp of the allies when coalesced Europe was rising to throw off the tyranny of Napoleon. During the whole of the campaign wliich cuhninated in the Battle of Leipsic find the triuirphal entrance of the allies into Paris Lord Aberdeen was the intimate adviser and trusted confi'lant of tlie Emperor of Austria and of most of the crowned heads of Europe?. .Seldom had a young man so great a role to play, and seldom has any om; fulfilled so difficult a jiart with so brilliant a success. Nature and education had alike fitted him for the position. A rare scholar, familiar with modern languages, at home eipially in court and camp, of a transparent sincerity and simplicity, which enabled him to command th(> confidence of the sover- eigns and statesmen with whom he was thrown into constant contact. Lord Aberdeen contributed as much as any man to the succe.ss of the great Eu.ropean revolt airainst Napoleon. In his son's pages we catch glimpses from time to time of this high spirited, chiv- 44 THE RHl//f:U- OF RFA'IFM'S. / nlrous Em^lishinaii living in tlif midst of aliii-iiis of war ami in thf very vortex ()f tin' intriu'ios of lialf a dozen rival conrts witli(»ut ever betniyin^^ the confi- dence of a friend or saci'ificini,' for a moment tlie in- terests of hiscoimtrv. Had lie rhme notliin^ elsi^ Lord Aberdeen wonld liave conferred an ineHtimal)le service upon tlie cansp of liberty and national indejjendence by the part wliich lie played in that campaign. Tlie (iordoiiH have often distitiKnisbed themselves in earlv life. One of the same familv fell on the field OEOKiiE (loRDOX, FiU'UTlt EAUL OF ABERIjEE.N. Mfiniii-iiil liu«t ill Wc'Ktiiiinster Ahhcy. of Waterloo a Lientenant-Colonel and a K. C. B.. when he was only 23 years old. Lord Aberdeen had been tanfj;ht statesmanship as a boy at the table of Pitt and Melville, in wliose homes he had spent his youth, and who had besides inherited a great tra- dition of public service broken only by a single link. He had, moreover, been steadied by the responsibili- ties of tlie iiiimagcment of liis estate at a time when other young men have bai'ely left tiie university. This, however, is not the iilace for telling the story of Lord Aberdeen, the Prime Minister. <'xcepting so far as it bears upon the prospects of Lord Aberdeen, the Governor-lTeneral. As Foreign Minister, as (Colo- nial Wei-etary and as Prime Mini^.ter, Lord Aberdeen had as much opportunity as any living man in shap- ing the policy of Englaml, both in Colonial affairs and on the continent of Eurojie. It is interesting t'> note, in view of the position which his grandson holds to-day. that the most conspicuous feature of his ad- ministrati(m of colonial atfairs during the short time he was at the Colonial Office was to draw up instruc- tions to Lor(i Amherst, whom he proposed to send a« High Commissioner to Canaila with powers not only to investiga..e but to settle in the most liberal man- ner the grievances (\i the colony. Although Lord Aberdeen vvas a Conservative aiid Foreign Minister of the Duke of Wellington, he always set his face as a flint against the doctrine favored by Lord Palmer- ston of interfering in every possilile way short of military force in the affairs of other nations. In liko manner, although he was a peer and a member of tht> permanent majority in the House of Lord.s he oji- posed without hesitation what he considered the Duke of Wellington's dangen^is policy of throwing ■lut the measures of the Reform Administration. Notwithstiinding this, the leadership and management of the Conservative party in Scotland Wiis forced upon him by the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel, who assured him that he had become ' ' the standard of our colonial policy as you were before of our foreign policy." Desitite his preoccupation with foreign affairs, he was statesman enough to see that the destruction of the Scotch Church was inevitable i;nleas action was taken to jiromptly meet the dt'mands of those who subsequently constituted the Free Church of Scotland. His advise was disregarded until it wa.s too late. During his second term of office as Foreign Secre- tary it fell to his lot to arrive at two important de- cisions of vital imxiortance to the Dominion over which his grandson is now presiding as repre* entative of the Queen. When he entered office the relations with tlie United States were somewhat dangerously strained owing to frontier difficulties and Canadian troubles. He sent Lord Ashburton to Washington on a special mission to ailjust tlie difficulties between the Empire anKl-.Tr.tl. 45 vigilant ill iiiuintiiiiiiii;; tlio ri^lits of Brlljiin In- ha'l no aspiration to oxtt-ml British territory even wIkto he was inviteil to do so. It is not genfrally known that it is owiiij; to Lord Aberde«.'ns rfci!;,'iiition of tho fact that tlit* Pacific Slope of California was part of the natural heritai,'*; of the United States of America that the British flag is not flying at this moment over the (lolden Gate. When the annexa- tion of Texas brouLfht tlie United States to tho verge of war. the M(»xican government offeri'il to cede California to Great Britain. Lord Elenborougli, then First Lord of the Admiralty, strongly ur;"'d npon his colleagues the iiiportance (jf accepting the offer. " Let ns obtain possession," he cried. " winle we can. of the key of the northwest coast (^f America." His arguments proilnced some effect iijxm Sir Robert Peel, tlien Prime Ministei-. but Lord Aberdeen s(!t his face as a flint against the scheme. However tempt- uig a bait San Franciscjo might be to a power which had the onerous naval rc'siionsibilities of Great Britain, he peremptoiily refused to permit the acceptance of an offer \vhi(!h would have been considered as an unfriendly act to the United States, ami which might not improbably have landed tho Republic and the Empire in hostilities. Such a possibility might be faced in maintaining existing rights, but nothing couM justify risking .such a disaster in order to estab- lish British authority where it had not previously existed. Sufltit'ient has been said to .show tliat Lord Aberdeen, the Prime Minister, recognized the neces- sity of maintaining a good understanding between the United States and the British Empire to induce him to swerve a hair's breadth from the policy which he rccogiiized as both just and expedient. After the rep(>al of the Corn Laws, which Lord Aberdeen .strongly siii>ported. the Peel administration fell, and on the fall of Lord Derby's Gi^vernment Lord Aberdeen became Prime Minister of the Queen, a post which he afterwards resigned umler circum- stances as honoral)le to him a.s it was discreditable to some of his colleagues. Her Majesty accepted his resignation vith unfeigned regret. She immediately gave him the vacant Garter, and wrote him a letter which is worth while introducing as indicating the kind of relations whiidi existed between the Sovereign and her Prime Minister. Windsor Castle, February 7, Ps.Vj. Though the Queen hopes to st;e Lord Alwrdeen in a short wliile, she seizes the opportunity of approving the appointment of the Hon. and Rev. Arthur Dr)uglas to the living of St. Olive's, Southwark, to siiy wliat she li;inlly trusts to do verbally, without giving way to her feeUiigs. She wishes to say what a prtiif; it is for lier to separate from so kind and dear and valued a friend as Lord Aber- deen has ever been to her since she has known him. The day he became her Prime Minister was a vr;/ happ;/ one for her ; and throughout his ministrj' h • has ever been tho kindest and wisest adviser, one to whom she could apply for advice on all and trifling occasions even. Tuis she is sure he will ever be— but the losiiiR him as lier first adviser in her Goveriunent is very painfvl. The pain has been to a certain extent lessened by the knowledge of cUl he has done to further the formation of this Govern- ment in so loyal, noble and disinterested a manner, ami by /o'.s friends I'etaiiiini; tliiir posts, vhirh in a iirrat t»^- curit y aj,'ain.-.t )Missit)le dangers. Till- l^iieeii is f.ure that thel'rmce and hcrs.lf may ever n-ly ii[)on liis valuable support and advice in all tunes of dilhonlty, and she now concludes with the expre.s.sion of her warmest thanks for all his kin.'ne.ss and devotion, aa Well as of her un.dterable friendship an,' esteem for him, and with every svih.h for his health and happiness. Mr. (Hailstone at the same ti'.ie wrote .i letter of sympathy, saying that Ik never regrett»>d having urged hiui to .icceiit " the s(Mt of jJowtT. to wliich he had a i)aramouut claim, conferred by superior wis- dom and virtue." On his resignation Lord Aber- deen remained in retirenu'ut. He ke))t up the rela- tions which existed between liim and bis monarch and continued to bring to l,ear u[)on jdl (pu'stions his keen, impartial judgment, wliicli made his counsel so valuable to statesmen of both parties. Lord Aber- deen never (juite forgave himself for his share of the bringing about of tiie Rus«o-Turkish war. His one cause of regret, ho wrote in 18r)7, was that he did not at oTice retire, instead of allowing himself to be dragged into a war which, though strictly justifiable in itself, was nn)st unwise and unnecessary. So deeply did ho take it to heart that he refused to re- build the i)arish church of Metiilick. He said he would leave tlie work for his son. No one knew why ho refused until after his death, when it was found that he .shrank from building a church owing to the share wiiich he had in the Criaie.m War. The sug- gestion cann- to him from the text in the Book of Chronicles: "And David said to Solomon. My son, as for me it was in my mind to build an house unto the name of the Lord my God ; but tlie Word of the Lord came to me saying. Tliou hast shed blood abundantly, and hast made great wars ; thou shalt not build a house unto my name, because thou luvst shed much blocxl u])on tho earth in my siglit." Her Majesty visited him in IS'u at Hadon till' mi'-nnili'rstan'lini;' lifs on the othfr fiiili', his rcaily sympathy, his alisolnte ror;;itfnl- ucHS of M'lf, his na'ural lii.nhomj,', ari' aiit to Icul thoHi! who ill) Mor know him to for^"t t'lat lirniMlh all this cxtHMiic p'liialiiyof (Icmeanor t!:i re i-j coarealeil a stron;,^ cliararter all ilie mu-e resohite to cair.s' oiit its enil beran^e i, is exii'emely imlitl'efent as t < the iin'ie fiirmalitifs of ccremonv an I ctinuette. The lifih Earl of Ahenleeu. the son of thel'rime Minister, 1 letter known as Lord lladilo, whose memoirs, wiiiten hy th ■ Uev. \\. li. l-'lliot. of BriLch- ton, has lorn,' hei'ii a favorite hioertiiiiiy amoai,' Evan- g( licals. Tile work passed into a sixth edition twenty j^i-ars ajio. Lmd lladdo was an invalid, whose last years were s])eut in the constant presenec of deal li. He took hnt .sli;;ht interest in politii.'-. altlioni;h he wa- a lucmher of tin; House of Commons. He threw his whole soul into the work of evantfelization. II' preai'heil. he taught, h' distrihnted traets ami Libles, built ehunhes and ;ieiii'rally laid himself out to pro- mote as much as in iiim lay the I'omiu;;; of the King- dom. He was sinurularly free from the hesottini; sin which haracterizes most persons of a pronounced evangelical piety. He was not intolei-ant. aud his in- fluence was ever exerted to break down the barriers of sect and the diirei'eiices which separated i^ood men. On hi.s death, at the early aj;e of 47, he was suc- ceeded by the sixth Earl of Aberdeen, the elder brother of th' present Govern ir (general. His sin- (;ular career wus on(! anioULf the many liiikn which unite the Aberdcens witii America. Two years after he hadsui'ceededtothe earldom, thinkim; that the re- sources of the family had been soinewh.it drained by the ;,'em'rosity of his father and by the H(>cefi- sity of providin'/ allowances to its ymmicer meiubers, he suddenly arrived at a straii'-fe decisjou, to whicli \\<^ was, dou'rtless. jilso prompted by an innate love of a'Uenture ; ml passion for u .-e.if.irin;,' life. Abandon- ing; his prii cely domain at Haddo, he crossed the At- lantic, and after ii short tour in the United States, aii.'indoueii his name aud rank at Boston an(l shipped himself as a sailor on bo.ir I a merchant shi[) which wa> bound for the ('anai v Islands. Xo one on board knew him a- aa earl : tliey only knew him as (reortfD H. t )sboni. He W.I-; over (! feet hi'^Ii. handsome, full of the natural courtesy of a^reat nobleman, but ho served in the b)ri'castle as if he had iieen an ordinary .seaman. He was enthusiastic about navijj;atioii. and passeil in the Xautical (JolleLje at Boston as first class naviij;ator and second class for seamanship. He had not been lorn; enough at sea to secure a captain's cer- titicate until the next year. He saih^l as mate in an American coast ini;ves.s('l, but .-shortly afterwards wo find him ,c.;ain as jui ordinary se;un;in makiiii; a voy- at;e to Mexico. For the next three or four years he con- tinued to earn his livint; before tlie mast. On one occa- sion a ship in which he was sailim; visited the colony \vher(( his uncle, afterwards Lord Staninore, was .i;ov- ernor, but he never made himself known, although it is said that one day he wrote his name on a pane of AFFARIC LODGE, LOCH A3 HRIC, BEAULY. LORD A\l> LADY AHhRDh.ES: A CHARAi. IHR sKHTrJi. 47 glass in thf (^dvcniorH rt'^iiltin-H. Jit^^^t^ntsb* voyages he lived tor thi' most piirt in Main*-. H<- ^-^tti* ro tiavv been very lifipjiy. 1I<' \Vii.< a hzi-i Tn>-irjr^f-r, and toi)k iin (ictivf part in rinz Ui^m. In ['•To hf started to make a v()ya;ie to Australia- b^iinif frf>m there to complete the cirele round \iy- nloht-. Six days, liowever. alter he left B"sT"ii W -jrai.* f^a^fht ViV the higlit of the down haul a» lie aij<3 hi* w>mpanion were lowerinj^ tlie main-ail. L,>rl A'*j*rT*I'-»rn was caujiht hy tlie rojie aiid thrown inr.* thr. •^rA. Hi.-* comi>ii"ion heard his cry for help a» Lh- p»:il into the water, but he was never sM^n or bK-arvl fit ^iuce. His death wlien sirvinj.' as fir^t luaMf <■« Itufurl rhat American shiji hron^ilit ahoiit the nf_:(y-^ir,n of the present earl, John Campbell (rord'.nj, -wfotr was the vonnKest son of Lord Hadd(j. and Uj wb^ytu thw ffketch is more ]particularly devoted. It was nei'essary to tlwell at luucli ,rT*-,ai!!.^T I»^n;rth than nsual upon the character of I/tiI Alxrnlf^Ti'ri ancestors. The (TOVernor-( xeneral is thfr rvs-nltant of the very varied and stran:relv mjttkihfl features whieii make up the sum of the Cjh 'nlx-jm c-faaracter. There are in him majiy of the salient trait* f4 the more notable of his forbears. He has the acliaimt-*trative genius and statesmanlike ability of tb*- Pnme Mini.-»- ter, the earnest piety an -ttrimgly developed in his brother Greorije. AJtb'jfiida he re- Bembles many of his ancestors he ha'^ a -ii-tinf.-t char- acter of his own, which will t^e l.>en.yif£mr.\<>x\ oi his qualities even by scj familiar a frieuJ i- Mr. Glad- stone. Lord Aberdeen Avas only a y.*-jjx;^r *>>n till 1870, when the death of his brother Gw^nf^ save him a seat in the House of Lords and br>«faeTs, is much stronger in umscular devf-Vj-pment than might be imagined from those who not- tion to till' rillr whi
  • uld ilrise an engine fri>ni Lond"n !■> Ivlinburgh. Throngli the indulgence nf a relative wht-n he was still a schoolboy he had i>ernii»iwn ti> ride on the engine of a local railway and he never, if he culd help it. rode iinywiiere else. He liad no greater d»»- light than to stand in front of the fir>--b">x acting as fireman or starter and occasiciiially b.jng i^'rinitted to drive the engine. He still remembers :is ene r.f tho proudest days of his life how. wlien he had fiid-hed oiling tlie engine when at full >^peed. thenMeni^ne driver said to liim : ■• Jolin, 1 think I nui.-t apjdy for a day's holiday and let you take diarire." From that time forward Lord Aberdeen has never \<^t touch with the l()C()m((tive engineers : no one is ninre iH>pu- lar with the railw.iy serv;iiits in the nld country and nothing but the lick of aciinaintain-e with the road and the signals sfam-ls in the vvay ef his beingable to take a C.inadian Pacific e.Kpres- right .uro-s the wliule Continent from the Atlaiitic to the Pacific. He is certaiidy the first (Tovernor-(ieneral who was also an engine driver. Kugine driviru;. in fact, may Iw con- sidereil as one of his favorite jinlihies. and '>ne of the things which he limked forward to in th-- new world was that of making a study of theenginesof America, as complete as that which he has made of the Icxomtj- tives of England and Stotland. It was this ixjyish pas- sion wlr .'..first introduced himtoiaibliclife. Lord De la Warr had moved for a .select committee intf) railway accidents and in siipport of his motion Lorcl Al»erdeen, who a very young man. made his maiden sjx'ech in the House of Lords. There is no more difficult audi- ence to address than the Peers, but his kn« >wledge of the subject and the enthusiasm with which he ex- plained the technicalities of railway management and the mysterie.s of fly-shunting to the Peers won hiia high prai.se. and when at a later period a Royal Com- mission was constituted in order to incpiire into rail- way accidents he wat» immediattdy nominated as a commissioner. Of this commission the Duke of Buckingham was the first chairman, but on his ap- ps of life nil tlie part of tiie working popula- tion. The a;,'italioii initiated hy Mr. I'iim.soll con- ceniinfjf tin; wimle.-ale destruction of sailor.-^' lives liy tho sendiuL; of coiUii .^liips to sea, in order to realize a profit for the owners, led to a proli)n;;ed and an;^ry controversy, in which Mr. (Jhaniberlain, who was then Prosiileiit of the Hoard sion on which both jiarties could be represented to take evidence and rei'oit. TheCoin- inis.siou wusastronf^oiie. Mr. Chamberlain was one of its members, and the lead! iii,' represent at ives of the sliip owiii'is were also there in force. Il was no easy la.-^k presiding,' over a tribunal in which the chief dispu- tants sat us jud^^es, and it was a singular tribute to the rai)idly rising reputation of the young Earl that he was selected as chairman, a position which some- what resembled thivt of ^-Eolus in the cave of the wiiuls. However, by the judicious dining of the Commis- sioners before they couunenced theiiKpiiry, and the ex- cellent practice of luucdiing together during the course of the iiuiuiry, Lord Aberdeen was able to establish sufficiently genial relations with tin; Comtiiissoners to get through wirli a singular absence of fricti(jii. His position as chainiian was largely official and aiipeal was constantly made to him l)y the advocates of the respective sides to rule .eb('ry. liarnoiit ot tlif .Scotc-h Chuivh of Eiliiibur^^li. la tlii.- (•xipacity Loi'il and Laily AberdtHMi ln'M uluiost renal court at Hiilyrooil Palaco. This was a kiii'l of ])ri- liininary aiiprfutio^hiii finalifyiii.:^ tlifiii for tli 'ir f-ubs«j(iuoiitvii;eroyalry in Dublin and tlieif (rovcrnor- Oeneralsbip in Cana la. Lord Abordi-on in this and other po.sitions whif.i he filled in the cause of pliilan- thropy and nli.nion ha<0 he w;i.s sent for l)y the Prime Min- ister and offered the Viceroyship of Ireland. Lady Aberdeen was .it ^lentniore with Lady Rnsebcry at the time, when she received a t>'lci.;ram fmm h of its jiroLframme. Tht; po.-ition (if Iri.-li Viceroy was, therefore, one of the most im- portant in the whole ailministration. L(U'd Aberdeen liesitated to accept so responsible a po;.ition without lime for consideration. Butit.- emed that political exigencies rendered it indisjieiisiible that the Viceroy must be appointed there and then, otherwi.se it would have been impossible for I\Ir, Morley to have taken office as Chief Secn-tary, and every hour (jf delay w.as of importance. And the old gentleman, when, in ad- dition to being Prime Minister of the Queen, he feels himself tostaad in loco parentis to . young politician, has about him a kind of parental imperativeness which it is difficult to resist. Therefore, Lord Aber- deen, being crowded into it, as it were, by Mr. (ilad stone, found himself suresls of Ireland. Uiifortunat'ly, Lord Caniarvou's states- maidike [jrojects for the jiacitication of Ireland met with but scant symi)athy from Lord Salisbury. The sit- uation between the Castle and Downinj^ street had been at^iira vated by the reactionary i)olicy of the ]\[iiustry rntil at last in despair Lord Carnarvon rcsifiued. and when on his way to London received the news of the fall of the ISIiinstry. Mr. (Tladstoiie came in. With- out the Home Rulers ho liail no majofity in the House of Commons. He. however, declared himself in favorof Home Rule, hopinjf to make up on the Ii-ish vote the defections which he knew he would have to expect on tl • part of the Whiffs and Radical Unionists. Tin- Irish, althoiigh delighted at the demonstration which this atTorded of the power of their Parliamentary vote, were sullen and sus- picious. They had had but too recent an experi- ence of what they called the Grand Old Coercionist for them to trust Mr. Gladstone further than they could .see him. Most of the leaders of tlie men upon who.se shoulders he was now returning to power liad been imprisoned by him during the administration of Mr. Foster or Lord Speni'cr. Men who have just comeoutof jail are inclined to apply the maxim about doubting the gift-bearing (ireeks to their former jailer. Mr. Morley"s ap])ointment as Chief Secretary, so far as it went, was accepted as a pledge of sincerity, but the Irish knew little of Lord Aberdeen and they knew a great deal al)out the Castle of which ho Wcis the latest occupant. There was, therefore, no popular demonstration when Lord and Lady Aber- deen began their viceroyal duties. The popular party in Ireland stot)d askanc", boycotting the castle as they had boycotted it for years past; and as the Loyalists, so-called, regarded the new administration as a band of traitors and renegades, the lot of the new Viceroy wjis anything but a hapi)y one. From this position of isolation they were rescr.ed by a happy experience which turned the tide, and was the first conspicuous act tliat notified to the Irish people the change which had come over the spirit of their British rulers. Tliere was in that year a great disti'ess in the west of Ii-eland, and the Ciistle had, of course, official intimation of the suiferings of the poorer cottagers on the Atlantic; coast. The ordinary method by whitsh reli(>f is obtained is by a meeting in the Mans7.(n House, called and presided over by the Lord Maytn-. It has been the curse of the system in Ireland that the Lor>\ Mayor of Dublin and the Vice- roy of tlve Queen at the Castle have held aloof from each other. The Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans, neither liave the patriots of the Mansion House anything to do with the courtiers at the Castle. On this occasion, liowever. a private communication was sent from the Castle to the Lord Mayor, Mr. T. D. Sullivan, the poer. ]iati-iot and genial chief magis- trate, to suggest the calling uf a meeting in order to devise means for relieving the distress, and he re- ceived a furtbei' intimation fnan the (.'astle to the effect that alth')ngh his Exct-llHUcy cduid not attend as Lord Lieut 'uant he would be very glad to be present in hiscap;ieitv as a citizen resident in Dublin. y.r. Sullivan, one of the be>r ht-arted men in tlio T.orlil, who was ac(iuaint<'d with tiie higli char- U'ter and sterling siucerityof the Viceroy, was very glad indeed to receive the intimation. Imt ju.st a tiifle anxious to know how th'- bhoys would take it. As there is no omelet witlniut breaking of eggs, their Excellencies carried it through. Every individual whom they cinsulted. iii'ludinu: all tiie authorities, opposed their .ictiou. They were warned that they would be hissed, that they would lH»gin their vice- royalt,y with a slap in the face whicli they would never get over, and thi'.t the one thing which they should avoid above everything was the running of any risks. To all of which ailvice. althougli couched in the most diplomatic way and pressed upon them with the greatest autlmrity. they turned a deaf ear. It wa? an inspiration, and they did well to act upon it. The news had got abroad that the Castle was goin^ to visit the Mansion Hmusc. and an immense crowd VMS gathered in the neigh1>orhiXHl to see the vice- regal carriages. In Dublin the representative of Her Majesty keeps up the tradition < >f royal state much more than in the more democratic colonies. On this occa- sion the Viceroy drove througii the streets of Dublin to the chief magistrate of the city with the usual car- riage and four, with postilions and outriders. It was a critical moment when the carriage drove up in front of the door of the Lord Mayor's official residence, and the Viceroy and his wife, in their capacity of citizens, descended to attend a meeting summoned to consider the distress in the west of Ireland. It seemed to those who were present as if the crowd quivered and hesi- tated, not knowing whether to hiss or to cheer, whea suddenly one of the bhoys gave rein to the exuber- ance of his enthusia.sm and bn >ke out into a hearty- cheer. Another second and all suspense was at an end. Amid a roar of cheers, the like of which hiid never been heard Ixdiiud a Viceroy in recent years, Lord Aberdeen maf i)eual servitude in Portland prison, but all men, irres|)ective of party, who knew the high character and stainless life of Michael Davitt rejoiced that such tj-pical representa- / LORD A\'D LADY ABERDEEN: A CHARACTER SKETCH. 51 t the Castle. Linuuifation 13-or. Mr. T. •hief iiiiigis- m order to junl he re- istle to the not attt'iid iclad to OH t ill Dtililin. iiii'ii in tlio lii^'h char- y. was very just a trifle :ake it. As ejjgs, their individual anthnrities, i that they their vice- they would which they running of igli couched I upon them a deaf ear. act upon it. e was going tense crowd ee the vice- itive of Her i much more n this occa- :s of Dublin le usual car- ers. It was e up in front sidence, and ' of citizens, to consider lied to those h1 and hesi- slieer, when the exuber- ito a hearty i was at an which htid ecent years, he meeting van readied itroduce I to Fenian con- there wius a men of the lat was best lized that a ' hands with ^rvitude in re of party, uless life of I representa- tives of the two races should have publicly exchanged the right hand of fellowship before the eyes of the two nations. Fmin that moment everythhig went well with them in Duljlin. A strange and what ap- peared to ii.ost Irishiiu'ii an incredible thing tnianti(! spot. The c'onntry scat TU'stled at the head of a lovely mountain strath twenty-three miles from the nearest railroad station or tele- grai)h oflKce. In this mountain solitude the young girl grew up a strong and sturdy Scotch lassie, passionately fond of read- ing and of the vigorous outdoor life of the mountain child. Her father, the son of the well-known Mr. Edward Mar- 3oribanks(who up to the age of ninety-four transacted all the heavy duties falling to the lot of the senior j)artMer of such a bank as Coutts"), (;onibin('d with his hereditary business instincts strong literary and artistic tastes and a passion for everything that pertained to sjjort and natxiral history. It was this whicli led liini in e;irly nmnhood to settle himself in the wilds of Invenies.shiri'. and tliere to create a very paradise, in the midst of which he lives the life of an ancient patriarch amongst his retainers and his ghillies, to the great benefit of all the glen. Latly Tweedmouth. a woman of great beauty and talent, was the daughter (jf Sir James Hogg, one of the mainstays of the old East India Council, and many members of lier family can boast in recent years of having maintained in the .service of tlieir cnuntry in India the high "-^ tx'aditions of tlieir combintnl Scottish and Irish ancestry. With such a host and hostess and in such surround- ings " ,dand, (iod fanned her with His ripening looks, And heaven's lirh instincts in hor grew As effortless as wiKnlland nooks Send violets up and paint them blue. This Scottish girl, witli her (Jaelic name, nursed on tradi- t'lon, on romance, and sur- rounded from infancy with the sound of the stirring melodies nf her native hills, was only < leven when she first saw her present husband. It chanced upon a day that a young man of twenty-one who had Ijeen riding across the country, lost liis way and came over the hills with a footsore pony to the entrance bridge of Guisaehan. He was little more than a boy. Slight of frame although of ordinary stature, with a frank, fearless look in liiseye. as he, after many apologies for trespas.sing, craved permission to put his pony up for the night at the ISHBEI. MAlt.li'KIHANKS. lodge so that iie might the next day continue liis jour- ney. Sir Dudley ^Marjoribanks. on inquiring for the identity of the strange wayfarer, found that he was named J< the head of liis house. Gen. Gordon took to Lord Aberdeen as if he had been liis own brother, and bo fore parting for the night he presented Ladj' Aber- deen with a beautiful set nf little silver coffee Uips as a tiiken nf their frii'iiilshij). Tlie didiabeah and tlie steamer ])arted in the night and in the morning tliev were out of sight. They met -ft at Assiout, but one was brought with them to lOngland. This was an Egyptian lad who had be- come a Christian, but who had been tortured into re- canting. He had run away from his tormentors and was more or less at a loss, and did not know wliat to do. Lord and Lady Aberdeen thei'efore enabled him to leave the country undetected in the character of one of their servants. On arriving home they put him to college at Edinburgh, and he is now a missionary in China. In addition to their adopted children they liave had five children, four of whom are living. The .second daughter died in infancy. Lord Haddo, the Hon. Dud- ley and Hon. Archie are the boys, while Ladj- Marjorie, who is only thirteen years old, is the onlj' surviv- ing daughter. Lady Marjorie has the distinction of being the youngest editor in the world, and her little monthly, Wre WiUiv Wiiikir, is an almost ideal speci- men of what a child's i)aper should be. It is .simple, natural, interesting, and I am glad to hear that it is likely to liave an extended range of usefulness on the American continent. Lady Marjorie is an interesting child, somewhat tall for her age, but still a child at : LORD AMD LADY ABERDEHS: A CHARACTER SKETCH. 55 her lessons. Slio t trainin.Lrin tlu' way of organization w;is the establishment of the On- ward and Upward Society, mx assoeiation whicii began on a small scale amo7ig the domestics and poor i)eople on their estate in Aberdeenshire, and which has spread nntil they have about i),ooi) mem- bers throughout the world. In comiection with this and in calling attention to anil advertisiTig the exist- ence of Irish manufactures, wliicli are (juite worthy totakeecpial rank with any other nation in the world. IMncli of the Irish lace and otiier displays took a high placeaniong thi' exhibits at the World's Fair, winning forty-seven medals. Thanks largely to the business capacity, untiring industry and constant vigilance of ^Frs. White, the Irish Village at Chicago, with over .uie hundred Irish imnates. was a great success from every jioint of view, as an olijei't lesson of what the Irish could do. It was a realistic reproduction of the actual conditions of life in theold i-ountry, which made a very handsome profit for tlie extension of the work LADY MARJORIE AND LORD HADDO GORD<\\, HON, ARCHIE .\,N1) HON. DUDLEY GLADSTONE GORDON. Lady Aberdeen edits a monthly review under the title of Onward and Upwurd. Drf Lynnm Abbott, writing upon this association in the Outlook, says that it is ii combination of the Y. W, C A., Working (iirls" Club and the Chatauipia Literary and Scientific Asso- ciation Another work M-ith which her name is even more prominently associated is the Irish Industries Association, which was brought more conspicuously before the American public by Lady Aberdeen's Irish Village, with its reproduction of Blarney Ca.s- tle, which stood at the entrance of the Midway Plais- ance in Jackson Park. It is difficult to estimate the stimulating influence of this as.sociation in promoting the development of the domestic industries of Iri'land of the H-ssociation. They have now taken a place in Wa- bash avenue, Chicago, where the products of Irish in- dustry are on sale. Similar depots Mill probably be es- tablished tlmmghout the whole world in time. A large measure of the expense for maintaining the machin- ery necessary to develop tliese industries into self-snp- jiorting concerns has been sujij)lied by Lord Al)er- di'en, while the amount of laljor which has been devoted to the task by the Countess is almost in- conceivable. She has her reward, however, in what promises to be a very thriving industry, or rather series of industries, which have l)egun already to con- tribute not a little to the amelioration of the condi- tioii cf life in old Ireland. 5G THE RHllHW (V klllFM-^. I i m\<\Misii'ssm!ijim i »j "^ I 'fSj^iyMgtfSiu' I iM»^ •rSflW^^P'l'^ rr:>S- •;v;;ijir-f,;si*#j^©^^«w spsai^i.^:;**? ■ t)J .VI nfl lid iol lij P^ sa till (id tiJ ml «l{ tlJ ovl wl eel in lU THE IRISH \ ILI.A(iE AT THK WORLDS FAIR. Perhaps tlif must iinpm'tant work un a wide scale witli which Latly Aberdeen lifts been connected was that which she undertook in the Woman's Liberal Federation, abody of so.(K)(» wumcTi of which slicis ar this moment President, althoui^li she will retire at the next general meetint?. Slie was elected to this post in HUcco.s.si()n to Mrs. Gladstme. and the very .';trnn.t,^'st possible pressure has been brouji'ht to bear upon her to induce lier to reconsider her determination to resign an office the duties of wliicli .she cannot discharge from Ottiiwa. Tlie Woman's Liberal Federation, it is well to remark, is no mere i)arty caucus. TIkm'c is no doubt that it was originally started by some wire- pullers of the Liberal Party, who imagined that it might he of good servici' to bring into existence a Liberal counterpart to the Primrose League. The Woman's Liberal Federation, however, no sooner came into being than it developed an independent ac- tivity of its own which led it to lie regarded with the liveliest feelings of resentment by the caucus mana- gers and wirepullers who had a.ssisted in bringing it into being. The association has had a great and bene- ticial effect in stimulating women to take an intelli- gent interest in i)olitics and to make their iiiHnence felt in all that relates to the moral and social im- provement of society. Time and again they hnvo rendered invaluable service to the cause of moral and .'social reform, and nothing can be further from the mai'k tlian to confouml such an association of etier- getic public-sjnrited women with a mere creature of tlie party whip. There are women in England who imagine that their only duty in politics is to can- vass for a candidate of their party, whoever he may be. and they liave formed a small caucus of their own. which is without num'ijers, without influence and without standing in the country. The Woman's Liberal Federation is a national organiz.ation which is growing in strength every year, and which in.sist»s on having a voice in the settlement of all national questions. As a means of education as well as an in • strument of political influence it fills a vt'ry useful part in our political economy. Lady Aberdeen ha,s not been long in the Dominion of (Canada, but she has already liel])ed to organize a National Oiuncil of Women, the object being to form a body of women representing all i)hases of women's work in every center of population in the whole Dominion. It is hoped that such a body will promote unit}- and char- itv. both amongst religious, phi!anthro])ic and seen lav associations, giving all a chance of kno\\nng of I i LORD ASn /,.//.'}■ JHhKDF.HS: A i.HARArjHK sKliliJI. .57 what is l)t>iiiK doiu' tor tho jtjood ot' tin' wurM ■lutsi'li' their own ituiiieiliiite spliere. It will also sccuri' their .loiut (Mjnsideratioii of pviblic (lucstioiis and their joint action whan circuuisfaiicv's arise wliiih will necessitate their prai'tical intervention. Of couise. like others who have taken any iutc^ri'st in the amel- ioration of the eoiidition of life. L idv Aberdeen 1m- lioves Hrnaly in wonian'.s suffraije. In her present position as wife of the Governor-Ge-neral she is neces- sarily i)re(diided from takini; any part in (piestioas that can by any pretense be alle^'ed t) belong to the domain of party politics. It ought not t > be a ques- tion of party politics to alKrm that a woman is a hu- man being, nor should a (Tovernor-Oeneral's wife b.- debarred from insisting upon the natural corollary of that fundamental truism. There is no douljt, how- ever, that the National Council will tend to lead women more and more to take counsel together and eee whether it is not possible for them to bring such influence to bear as to rentier it po,ssible for the be^ t men, truly the best men, to bt* rett;rned to tho Houses of Parliament. LADY MARJORIE GORDON, The thirteen-year-old editor of "Wee Willie Winkle." HOV. ARCHIF. OORDON <'As oiiL' of tlie •'Cliililrcii's (iuiinl of '■oiior"in atteiulanno Ujioii tli<' Queen oti the ociM-ioii of the iiiivi'ilingr of f'rini-os.s I-oniso's statue of II>'r Majesty in Konsinprton Uanlons, .Tun.'. 180;?. ' \'. GOXTRNOR-r.rNHRAL Duriiin- the whole nf the Salisbury administration it was regarded as a niatt(>r of cinirse that with the advent of a Home Rule administration Lord Aber- deen would go back to Dublin as Viceroy. The im- mense success which had attended his previous vice- royalty and thei'ontiuued and continuously ijicreasing interest which Lady Aberdeen took in all that con- cerned the material interests of the distressful country e;insed the ordinary man to take it as a matter of course that whatever appointments were in doubt, there could be no more (piestion as to who wotilil be the Irish Viceroy than th(>re was as to who would be the Prime ^Minister. Mr. (iladstone him- self was believed to shan; this view, and great indeed was the astonishment of the country when on the gazetting of the appointments Lord Aberdeen's name did not njipear on the list. It is an ojien secret that the ajjpointment of Lord Houghton to be Viceroy was due entirely to the initia- tive of IMr. ^[orley. Mr. Morley was and is a clo.se friend of the Aberdeens, but he deemed it desirable in the interests of the new adTninistratioii that England should have nfit two representatives in Ij-eland, but 08 THE REVIEW OF REyiFWS. i ' one, and that oneshotild be himself. No doiiVrt from his own stjindpoiiit, however, he was abundantly justified ; and for the general interests of the Empire we cannot but rejoice tliat Lord Aberdeen should have been provided \\nth a splicre of influence ini- measuraV)ly more important than that which he would have had as a Viceroy at Dublin. At first there seemed some doubt as to whether they would have gone to India or wt)uld accept the Governor-Generalship of Canada. During the Con- servative administration be li.id traveled together with Lady Aberdeen over the whole of the British Empire. incUiding India. There is seanu'ly a ctolony i)r depend- ency which they did not visit. But apart from Ireland there was no post in the Empire more congenial to Lord and Lady Alierdeen than the Governor-General- ship of the Dominion of Canada. Canada reminded them in manv points of their own native land, and they had been very much impressed with the future of the country. A few yeai-s ago they had established a kind of country seat for themsi'lves in the ranching lands of British Columbia. There they retired from time to time away from the incessant round of duties which f)ccupied them at Dollis Hill and at Haddo House. They hay three-fonrtlis of human interest, he was in a position which placed upon him and his family the obligation of exercising all the in- fluence which any highly placed and cultun'd citizen is bounil to exercise. On bis lauding, in reply to an address of welcome, he sounded the keynote : " It is indeed an office of high honors, as well as of grave and serious responsibility. But, gentlemen, does the honor and dignity of it exclude the holder from the common lot. the common heritage of serv- ice? Naji, it implies, it includ<'s, it conveys this privilege, this grand principle and purpose of 1' <». If and because your Governor-General is in the sendee of the Crown, he is. therefore, in a literal and abso- lute sense, in the servitre of Canada. In other words, aloof though he be from actual executive responsi- bility, his attitude must bt^ that of cetuseless and watchful readiness to take part, by whatever oi)por- tunity may be afforded to him, in the fostering of every influence that will sweeten and elevate i)ublic Hfe ; t>> ' bserve, study and join in making known the resources and development of the country ; to vindi- cate, if re(iuired, the rights of the people and the ordinances of the constitutif)n, and. lastlj'. to promote by all means in his power, without reference to class or creed, every movement and every institution cal- culated to forward the social, moral and relig- ious welfare of all the inhabitants of the Dominion. Such, gentlemen, I venture to assure you is the aim and purpose which, in dependence on the one ever effectual source of help and strength, we desire to pursue." There is in this brief speech the keynote of the whole of Loi-d Aberdeen's life. He has succeeded, it is true, to a jjeerage anF THEIR DEPARTl RE FOR ( ANADA. (From a Kodak taken liy Lady Aberdeen.) somewhat of the more genial and brighter joy of the larger hope. In all questions connected ^vnth education and of the multiplication of opportunities of social enj(5y- ment and of humanized intercourse they have, in England, been in the forefront, and their tr.'msferto the New World will open up new fields t. ' Kreat*KHthering iropic iiiovementB. Hten to Mr. Qlad- iibliige in protest religious denoini- Jiations find there heir absence from 11 till their plaoe. •hotographer, and a Kodak." bears she hjiH the eye ui(!k and olwerv- tff-ctive, her voice from the shrill- •atory ot women, le household aa- h are conducted nee by Ids wife, ung, a chapter in Aberdeen reads in in the Lord's iins the only oc- ! house and the ity. Every week lold club, which •s of the house- ledlcy of music, Jre are besides lub and lantern ' exiwriment is woi-thy of imi- rliuess running t Rideau Hall old life will be Id. What the ', but ifc is not a t at the end of 1 that Lord and 9^ to the Green leartily returns ot come to pass me to express le good results Governor-Gen-